Middle Orient

“The Chinese are imposing a kind of sanction on us. They don’t officially declare it, but they are delaying shipments to Israel…. In electronic products, there are tens of thousands of components, but if even one component doesn’t arrive, we cannot deliver the product.” — Unnamed senior figure in a …

The new head of the army’s Central Command has overseen several major army major operations and stood by as settlers carried out pogroms in the occupied West Bank Brigadier General Avi Bluth, an extremist religious settler, has been appointed to the position of Central Command commander of the Israeli army, …

Nearly 500 healthcare workers have been killed by the Israeli army in Gaza since 7 October Palestinian orthopedic surgeon Adnan al-Bursh, who served as the head of orthopedic surgery at Al-Shifa Hospital, was killed in an Israeli detention center after being imprisoned for more than four months. According to a …

Israel has long been at the center of international organ trafficking networks and has stolen organs from dead Palestinians Police in the Turkish city of Adana detained 11 suspects, five Israeli and two Syrian, on allegations of organ trafficking, the Daily Sabah reported on 5 May. The Provincial Directorate of …

Saraya al-Ashtar, a Shia armed faction in Bahrain, has announced its first operation against Israel The Islamic Resistance in Bahrain announced on 2 May an attack on the headquarters of an Israeli transportation company in the southern port city of Eilat. “The Islamic Resistance in Bahrain – Saraya al-Ashtar (Al-Ashtar …

Russia and Syria say the US harbors and trains militants from ISIS and other groups in the 55 km buffer zone surrounding its base in Al-Tanf ISIS militants launched a massive attack on 3 May on several points belonging to the forces supporting the Syrian army in the Al-Sukhna desert …

Sanaa has warned that if the Israeli army enters Rafah, navigation in the ‘area of military operations’ will not be allowed The Yemeni armed forces announced on 3 May the start of the “fourth phase” of escalation against Israel and in support of Palestine, threatening to target Israeli-linked ships “anywhere …

Facing domestic and international pressure for Israel’s US-backed Gaza assault, the Biden administration appears poised to throw Netanyahu under the proverbial bus. In Gaza, a metaphorical “hostage” scenario has emerged, centered on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose political future is being bartered at a steep political price. Although not physically …

An unprecedented wave of US student protests in support of Gaza has dismantled Israeli soft power and handed it to Palestinians. On 18 April, students at Columbia University in New York initiated a sit-in on the campus lawn, protesting the Ivy League institution’s ongoing financial links to companies connected to …

After seven months of a brutal military assault on Gaza, it is abundantly clear that Israel has not succeeded in eradicating Hamas. Instead of delivering a decisive military victory, the occupation state finds itself being drawn kicking and screaming into negotiations over a two-state solution. Withstanding the impracticality of establishing …